Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo is not ready to make nice with a blackmailer who is threatening to release provocative and/or nude pictures of the pageant queen to the press unless she steps down from her royal throne. The blackmailer has now mailed the state representative (kind of...) two separate packages of "sexy" photos and threatening letters. Sounds like someone is just a sore loser or someone from Polumbo's past just really needs some money.

She ain't never scared.

Polumbo's lawyer's response? "I don't think the pictures are that bad," despite the fact that most are speculating that they are nude photos. Polumbo refuses to step down from her position as partial leader of the free world as well. Apparently, the pictures seem like they're bad enough that the legal team does not want to pull a Tiger Woods and post the pictures everyone wants to see before someone else can do it for money, like the famous golfer did for pictures of his first child. Full story here.

I guess that's kind of pretty, Katie Rees.

Will this be another Miss Nevada (Katie Rees) sized picture scandal for the troubled pageant world?

At least there's no rehab and Rosie O'Donnell/Donald Trump fights on this one.

The Donald and still hired Miss USA Tara Conner

First Rees, then Tara Conner's tear-filled press conferencesm then Miss USA Katie Smith's famous fall at the Miss Universe pageant, I suppose it's kind of nice to realize these beauty queens are real people. It has been a rough year to be pretty and charming for a job this year.

How she smiles into the camera after this still amazes me.

Was that fall worse than Whitney's fall on "Good Morning America" on The Hills?

Probably.